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Is there something you can do to a ring to produce a commutative ring? Like for any group, you can create an Abelian group by factoring out its commutator subgroup. Can you "force" a ring to commute?
Landau said:I think you mean the ideal generated by ab-ba?
Making a ring commutative means to rearrange the order of multiplication in a mathematical ring so that the result is the same regardless of the order in which the elements are multiplied.
Making a ring commutative can simplify mathematical calculations and make it easier to solve equations. It also allows for more general and efficient algorithms in computer science and other fields.
No, not all rings can be made commutative. Only rings that satisfy the commutative property, where a*b = b*a for all elements a and b, can be made commutative.
Commutative rings are used in various fields such as cryptography, coding theory, and signal processing. They are also used in physics and chemistry to model certain systems and phenomena.
While making a ring commutative can have many benefits, it can also limit the types of operations that can be performed on the ring. In some cases, it may also result in loss of information or accuracy in calculations.